Drugs Used in Mental Illness
• Drugs Used in Mental Illness:
Antipsychotic and Antimanic
Drugs
• Psychoses :- These are severe psychiatric illness with
serious distortion of thought, behaviour, capacity to
recognise reality and of perception (delusions and
hallucinations).
• There is inexplicable misperception and misevaluation; the
patient may be unable to meet the ordinary demands of life.
• Acute and chronic organic brain syndromes (cognitive
disorders) :-
• Such as delirium and dementia with psychotic features;
some toxic or pathological basis can often be defined.
Prominent features are confusion, disorientation, defective
memory, disorganized thought and behaviour.
• Functional disorders :-
• No underlying cause can be defined; memory and
orientation are mostly retained but emotion, thought,
reasoning and behaviour are seriously altered.
• Drugs Used in Mental Illness:
Antipsychotic and Antimanic
Drugs
• Psychoses :- These are severe psychiatric illness with
serious distortion of thought, behaviour, capacity to
recognise reality and of perception (delusions and
hallucinations).
• There is inexplicable misperception and misevaluation; the
patient may be unable to meet the ordinary demands of life.
• Acute and chronic organic brain syndromes (cognitive
disorders) :-
• Such as delirium and dementia with psychotic features;
some toxic or pathological basis can often be defined.
Prominent features are confusion, disorientation, defective
memory, disorganized thought and behaviour.
• Functional disorders :-
• No underlying cause can be defined; memory and
orientation are mostly retained but emotion, thought,
reasoning and behaviour are seriously altered.
